Mark Finkelstein
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Mark's undergrad degree is from Cornell. He has law degrees from SUNY Buffalo and Harvard. He practiced law in NYC, Mexico City, and Paris, before doing a stint as a pro tennis manager and tournament organizer. He returned to his college town of Ithaca, NY and got involved in real estate development and politics.

In 2011, Mark moved to Pecan Plantation, TX, and in 2018, to Oak Island, NC.

Mark's a dog lover who has used his small plane to do many dog-rescue flights. He speaks Spanish and French.
 

MarkF | July 27, 2015
Is Hillary hearing donkey hoofbeats? On his Weekly Standard podcast today, Bill Kristol put the odds at "better than 50/50" that one or more of Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden or John Kerry would jump into the race against a Hillary Clinton whom he described as "extraordinarily weak." Kristol made an undeniable point, to wit, that "if someone came in and gave you [her] poll numbers, you would look…
MarkF | July 27, 2015
It's a point of pride at Morning Joe that the show is unscripted. But in a notable deviation from that practice, Joe Scarborough clearly seemed to be reading off a teleprompter today as he promulgated a damning indictment of Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified informtion on her private email system. Scarborough's statement was interspersed with clips of Hillary making statements about her…
MarkF | July 25, 2015
That really ought to promote a constructive dialogue . . . Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, has announced that "any opportunity we have to shut down a Republican convention, we will." Appearing on today's Melissa Harris-Perry, Cullors also blithely spoke of "the murder of Mike Brown" in Ferguson, MO. Neither of the co-guest hosts sitting in for Harris-Perry,…
MarkF | July 25, 2015
  That really ought to promote some constructive dialogue . . . Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement has announced that "any opportunity we have to shut down a Republican convention, we will." Appearing on today's Melissa Harris-Perry, Cullors also blithely spoke of "the murder of Mike Brown" in Ferguson, MO. Neither of the co-guest hosts sitting in for Harris-Perry,…
MarkF | July 25, 2015
  That really ought to promote some constructive dialogue . . . Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement has announced that "any opportunity we have to shut down a Republican convention, we will." Appearing on today's Melissa Harris-Perry, Cullors also blithely spoke of "the murder of Mike Brown" in Ferguson, MO. Neither of the co-guest hosts sitting in for Harris-Perry,…
MarkF | July 25, 2015
  That really ought to promote some constructive dialogue . . . Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement has announced that "any opportunity we have to shut down a Republican convention, we will." Appearing on today's Melissa Harris-Perry, Cullors also blithely spoke of "the murder of Mike Brown" in Ferguson, MO. Neither of the co-guest hosts sitting in for Harris-Perry,…
MarkF | July 23, 2015
Ouch: this one's going to leave a mark.  Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton has said that "John Kerry acted like Pontius Pilate, he washed his hands" on crucial issues in the Iran deal and left it to the IAEA to negotiate secret side deals with Iran on them. Cotton made his remarks on today's Morning Joe.  It might be a mark of the regard, or lack thereof, in which Kerry is held that no one on the…
MarkF | July 22, 2015
Arianna Huffington is no pachyderm, politically speaking, but like the elephant, she apparently never forgets--or forgives.  Three years ago, Donald Trump called Huffington "unattractive both inside and out."  Arianna has now returned the favor, relegating HuffPo's coverage of Trump to its entertainment section. On today's Morning Joe, HuffPo's Sam Stein was put in the unenviable position of…
MarkF | July 20, 2015
If calling his constituents "crazies" is a term of endearment, what would be an insult?   On today's Morning Joe, John McCain refused to apologize to the thousands of Arizonans attending a Trump rally that McCain called "crazies." According to McCain, "crazies" is a "term of endearment" and a "term of affection."
MarkF | July 17, 2015
Andrea Mitchell had the chance to ask John Kerry, on live national TV, any question she wanted about the Iran deal.  She could, for example, have confronted him over the lifting of the conventional arms and ballistic missile embargoes that were included as a nice little parting gift to Iran. Instead, on today's Morning Joe, Mitchell lobbed up the mushiest of softballs, asking Kerry "what that…